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UNITED STATES J. J. PARKER, OF

MARIETTA, OHIO.

APPLE PARER, CORER, AND SLICER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,988, dated September 11, 1860.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J. J. PARKER, of Marietta, in the State of Ohio,-have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apple-ParingMachines; and I do hereby declare the following to be acorrectdescription of the saine, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is an isometrical view of ,my improvedapple parer complete; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the adjustablehead; Fig. 3 is a vertical section from front to rear of the same; andFig. 4 a longitudinal vertical section of the main shaft, and theadjacent parts.

The same part is marked by the same letter of reference, wherever itoccurs.

The nature of my invention consists in certain improvements in the appleparing machine patented by me July 6, 1858, which relate to theconstruction of the adjustable head or knife stock, and the addition ofa slicing knife for slicing the apples after passing the quai-teringblades-all as hereinafter more particularly set forth.

To enable others to make and use my improved apple parer I will proceedto describe its construction and operation. Except as regards the headand slicing knife, the construction of the implement is the same as thaton which my patent of July 6, 1858, was issued.

In the drawings A marks the top plate which rests upon the table orshelf to which the parer is fastened.

B is the lower clamp plate, and C, the set screw by which the machine isheld in. place.

D marks an arm projecting from A, to the upper end of which the broadcog wheel E is attached as shown. The narrower cog wheels H, and J, areattached the first to the end of the corer shaft 71. and the second tothe end of the hollow shaft K of the slicing wheel L. This wheel isprovided with any desired number of blades M which divide the applelongitudinally. The shaft of this wheel is supported and turns onstationary tube z', which projects from and forms part of collar I. Intube z', the main or corer shaft 7L, which is solid, turns.

N is a slicing knife placed in the position shown in Fig. 1, for thepurpose of cutting the apple transversely into slices as it passes fromthe quartering blades.

O is a stationary worm or screw thread on a stationary piece 1V attachedto the end of the hollow tube z'.

P marks wings on the solid head of the coring tube X. The entering endof this tube is marked Q. This coring tube is at tached to the end ofshaft L and turns with it.

R marks the movable guide or presser on the top of the vibrating head(Figs. 2 and 3) just above the paring knife S. Below the knife is placedthe trough AT, which conducts the parings into a suitable receptacle.The vibrating head is attached to the top of the arm U which is kept upby spring V wound around it and actuating it as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The operation of the machine is as follows The parer having been clampedto a shelf or table, the apples to be operated upon are placed on thecoring tube X at the sharp annular part Q, and forced along it to thepart P where the wings P keep it from turning-on the shaft. The winch Fis then turned, when the worm O takes the apple and draws it on towardthe quartering blades M. `When it is on the worm, the head (Fig. 8) isso placed that the guide or presser R is forced against the surface ofthe apple by the spring V. The paring knife then begins to operate inremoving the parings, the play of the guide R being such as to presentto the apple only that port-ion of the blade S which is required tooperate. The parings pass in between the guide R and knife S, in thedirection indicated by the arrows in Figs. 2 and 3, then down the troughT into any proper receptacle. The apple, as it is pared, is forced bythe worm O on to the blades M of wheel L which revolves with the samespeed as the corer X. These blades divide it longitudinally, when itcomes in contact with the slicing knife N, which cuts it transverselyinto thin slices. The wheel L, and the corer X, revolve with equalvelocity by reason of the cog wheels I-I and J on the ends of theirshafts being of equal Size and number of teeth and both gearing into thesame broad cog wheel E.

Having thus fully described my invenl 3. The slicing knife N arrangedand Oper- 10 tion, what I claim as my improvements and ating asdescribed. desire to secure by Letters Patent is-n The abovespecification, signed and Wit- 1. Thel combination With paring knife, Snessed this thirtieth day of July, A. D. 1860. 5 of the movable guide R,in the manner and J J PARKER for the purpose specified.

2. The combina-tion With the knife S of Witnesses: the trough T, as andfor the purpose speci- GEO. S. VELSH, fied. JAMES A. ADAIR.

